War and Morality. Al Qaeda v USA

Pledging allegiance to the Flag of Texas? Sounds like what my father had to go through when his family moved there in the 1920's. It was like they thought the universe revolved around Texas -- he was even taught to capitalize every "T" because it stood for Texas.I'm sure that the principal had not thought that one up on his own nor on the spur of the moment. Jehovenah's Witnesses have long had problems with the Pledge of Allegiance so I'm sure that policy had long been in place.Has she since learned that those idiotic devisive words were added by Congress in 1954? Or that they then trashed the National Motto in 1956? Never mind defacing our currency in 1955.

Software engineer. BS Computer Science, my second of three bachelor degrees, prefaced by German and followed by Applied Math. I made it slightly past the full three semesters of calculus, but the concepts have been able to stick with me and I do like to fiddle with mathematical problems.I didn't learn that nasty bit of history until well into my adulthood, but then we didn't have access to the Internet until I was past 50 (though I had researched that before then, in the mid-80's). I had missed personally experiencing that transition by a couple years. Though at one opening-day for Little League, a slightly old man, apparently the beneficiary? of Catholic school, shared how the nuns used to "correct" them (yard-stick instruction, I gathered) for adding the new words, "under God", to the Pledge, which makes me strangely appreciative of Catholic sensibility, in this one regard, at least. They have those in Texas? From what one escapee from Texas told me, Austin was the only spot of civilisation to be found in the entire state.As a veteran myself, about to have to retire due to age, I swore solemn oaths to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. And that is where my loyalty still lies.